Some people have vacation right now, but those who stay here won't miss the fun :-D

I have just attached to bug 13791 my work on integrating Plack into the packages setup / maintenance/management scripts.

I created a koha-plack script which is self explained if run with --help or (if you build the packages out of master+patchset) man koha-plack.

It basically uses starman and start-stop-daemon to handle running plack instances for each Koha instance.

For simplicity (we talked about this in Marseille) I've decided to take full advantage of Apache 2.4.7+ features and the results are quite interesting in terms of setup complexity (compared to current approaches). Starman is run so it listens on a UNIX Domain Socket (on the filesystem, on a deterministic location, /var/run/koha/<instance>/plack.sock) and Apache just uses ProxyPass with UDS. I also make use of variable declaration capabilities in Apache.

Please take a gentle look, comment on this thread on things that could be improved, and have the ball rolling so we have out-of-the-box plack setup ready for 3.22 in November \o/

TODO:

- Revisit the reverse proxy configuration

- Haven't really tested packagin this yet

Kind regards